English has just incorporated stupidity from more places/things than most

if you want the language to follow intuitive patterns, you have to impose that on it from the beginning
and as it's used by a given culture, quirks in common usage will eat away at that unless you keep driving it in somehow_________________butts

that's partly what I was referring to with "quirks in common usage will eat away at {the imposed intuitive patterns}"

in some ways it has a slightly bad design, but also, for example, incorporation of new roots from European languages has run rampant even when they weren't needed to convey meaning
which is also partly a design flaw, I guess

the reasons Esperanto and languages like it aren't particularly successful are mostly political, though

Esperanto is well enough designed to be super easy to learn compared to other languages, certainly, and English is a piss-poor choice as an international language in comparison_________________butts

Esperanto is well enough designed to be super easy to learn compared to other languages, certainly, and English is a piss-poor choice as an international language in comparison

Did you know that English is already used at the default international language for air traffic control? Apparently, English excels at communicating semantics, which are critical for coordinating large pieces of equipment.

I'd heard something similar but opposite about the Chinese language; that it wasn't very suitable for directing military aircraft.

Anyway, those examples in the original picture are not things I've ever heard ESL people complain about.

Chinese (and japanese in a similar vein) are heavily context based, and what I mean there is that the same sound or word can have widely different meanings based on sentence structure or the paragraph, you literally have to look at an entire paragraph a lot of the team to gleam the correct meaning. This makes verbal communication difficult, as written communication can have different symbols for the exact same sounds, implying different contextual meaning.

The example i half remember from my japanese book is

ki ri ki ri ki ri ki ri ki ki ri ki ki ri ki ki ri

translates into the chicken farm in kiriki has many chickens, sometimes more than a dozen